forthcoming events / Conferences

2010 July  What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say, 3-5 July 2010 ‏University of York, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 1 October 2009 Questions and queries can be sent to the organizing committee: Ziad Elmarsafy (ze500@york.ac.uk); Anna Bernard (ab609@york.ac.uk); David Attwell (da506@york.ac.uk); Stuart Murray (S.F.Murray@leeds.ac.uk); Eleanor Byrne (E.Byrne@mmu.ac.uk).      Scholarly Networks in the British Empire, Transnational & Imperial Connections After 1850, 5 – 6 July 2010 Wadham College, Oxford, UK Submission of proposals for papers: 31 December, 2009 Tamson Pietsch tamson.pietsch@new.ox.ac.uk BCLA XII International Conference: Archive, 5-‏8 July 2010 University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 18 December 2009. Contact: archive@kent.ac.uk Sites: www.kent.ac.uk/secl/archive and www.bcla.org    Third Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing Network, Contemporary Women's Writing: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies, 7-9 July 2010 San Diego, Texas, US Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2009 The conference Web site, still under construction, can be found at: www.cwwn.sdsu.edu Contact: Dr. Edith Frampton eframpto@mail.sdsu.edu and Anne Donadey adonadey@mail.sdsu.edu.    Reading Jean Rhys, 8 July 2010 King’s College, London, UK To register please follow the link: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/english/events/rhys The Siege of Beirut and the Ethics of Representation, 16-17 July 2010 SOAS, University of London, UK Registration is open online at www.radicaldistrust.org | Enquiries should be addressed to Dr Caroline Rooney: C.R.Rooney@kent.ac.uk or Dr Nazneen Ahmed: N.A.Ahmed@kent.ac.uk Open University Postgraduate Conference - "Reading Conflict", 19 July 2010 London, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 19 April 2010 | Contact: Ole Birk Laursen O.B.Laursen@open.ac.uk | Site: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading-conflict/ Mysticism, Myth, Nationalism, 23 - 24 July 2010 University of Exeter, UK Site: www.sall.ex.ac.uk/content/view/2370/577/  Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire, 1895-1939 and 1939-1965, London 8- 9 July 2010 and Pittsburgh 25 -26 September 2010 Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2009 | Contact: Lee Grieveson at l.grieveson@ucl.ac.uk Recycling Myths, Inventing Nations, 14-16 July 2010 ‏University of Wales Conference Centre, Gregynog, Powys, Wales, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2009 Contact: myth2010@aber.ac.uk Site: www.aber.ac.uk/myth2010 Reading Conflict - Open University Postgraduate Conference, 19 July 2010 ‏Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, London WC1, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 19 April 2010 Contact: Ole Birk Laursen at O.B.Laursen@open.ac.uk   August  Multiple Modernities of Same-Sex in Nigeria, 18-20 August 2010 National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland Deadline for Abstracts: 10 May 2010 | Contact: ide.corley@nuim.ie The XIXth Congress of International Comparative Literature Association, 'Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature', 15 - 21 August 2010 Seoul, Korea Site: http://www.icla2010.org/   10th ESSE Conference: The Enemy Within: Cultures of Terror in South Asian Literature and Film, 24-28 August, 2010 University of Turin, Italy Deadline for Abstracts: 15 December 2009 Contact: Dr Stephen Morton, Senior Lecturer at: s.c.morton@soton.ac.uk / Dr Pascal Zinck, Associate Professor at: cap.zinck@wanadoo.fr / Dr Veronica Thompson, Associate Professor at: thompson@athabascau.ca Site: http://www.unito.it/esse2010/home/index.php?contenuto=home Women's Memory-Work: Gendered Dilemmas of Social Transformation, 24-26 August 2010 University of Limerick, Ireland Deadline for Abstracts: 16 April 2010 Contact: womensmemory@ul.ie | Site: http://www.ul.ie/isks/news.html September   Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Conference: Geographies of Black Internationalism, 1-3 September 2010 London, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 12 February 2010 | Contact: Daniel Whittall at d.j.whittall@rhul.ac.uk. The Second Annual Es’kia Mphahlele First Postgraduate Colloquium and Arts Forum, 2-3 September 2010 University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Deadline for Abstracts: 14 June 2010 | Contact: eskia.slls@wits.ac.za Site: http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Humanities/SLLS/Events/EskiaColloq/ Conference to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the 'Year of Africa’.  6-7 September 2010 Richmond Building, University of Portsmouth, UK A registration form may be obtained from: liam.dean@port.ac.uk Texting Obama, 7-10 September 2010 ‏Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 26 March 2010 | Contact: textingobama@mmu.ac.uk Crime Across Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 9-10 September 2010 University of Leeds, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 28 Mary 2010 | Contact: crimeacrosscultures@googlemail.com | Site: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/crimeacrosscultures.htm International Postgraduate Conference: Crisis, 9-10 September 2010 Salford, Greater Manchester, UK Site: http://www.famss.salford.ac.uk/page/pgconf_2010 Deadline for Abstracts: 5 May 2010 The South Asian Short Story, 10 September 2010 Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent, UK The deadline for abstracts: 20 July 2010 | Contact: Dr Alex Padamsee and Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah at SouthAsianStory@kent.ac.uk   Five Decades of Innocence and Experience:  The Work of Eva Figes, 10-11 September 2010 University of Northampton, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 30 April 2010 | Contact: Dr. Sonya Andermahr (University of Northampton, UK): sonya.andermahr@northampton.ac.uk and Miss Silvia Pellicer-Ortín (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain): spellice@unizar.es Bharat Britain: South Asians Making Britain, 1870–1950, 13-14 September 2010 British Library Conference Centre, London, UK This conference arises out of the 3-year AHRC-funded project ‘Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870–1950’. Please see the project website for further details: www.open.ac.uk/arts/south-asians-making-britain. Deadline for Abstracts: 30 September 2009 Contact: Send abstracts to Dr Florian Stadtler on f.c.stadtler@open.ac.uk, with ‘MB conference’ in the subject line.  21st Century European Literatures, 21st-Century European Literature: Mapping New Trends, 15-17 September 2010 ‏University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK Deadline for Submissions: 1 September 2009 See link for more information: http://www.st-drews.ac.uk/modlangs/media/CFP21stEnglish.doc    African Studies Association UK Biennial 2010 Conference, 16 – 19 September 2010 University of Oxford, Oxford, UK If you would like to suggest a series of panels or theme, please contact David Kerr, d.kerr@bham.ac.uk. Registration for the conference will use the same online system and be available from January 2010. https://asauk.conference-services.net/authorlogin.asp?conferenceID=1897&language=en-uk   Multidirectional Memory: Slavery, The Holocaust and the Colonial Past, 23-24 September 2010 Leeds Humanities Research Institute, Leeds, UKDeadline for Abstracts: 30 June 2010 | Contact: Lizzy Finn e.finn@leeds.ac.uk The Second Annual Critical Theory Conference, Violence and Reconciliation, 24 September 2010 University of Exeter, UK Deadline for abstracts: 12 July 2010 | Contact: Graham Matthews (gjm201@ex.ac.uk), Lara Cox or Sam Goodman at critical.theory.online@gmail.com | Site: http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/content/view/2711/577/ Children and War: Past and Present, 30 September – 2 October 2010 University of Salzburg, Austria Deadline for Abstracts: 31 December 2009 / Contact: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk October  Freud After Derrida, 6-9 October 2010 The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada‏ For information, see the Mosaic website at: www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic. The site will be available (and linked to the Mosaic website) by summer 2009. Electronic submissions preferred (Rich Text Format). Please direct enquiries and proposals to: mosaconf@cc.umanitoba.ca.   4th International SELICUP Conference, Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture: Spaces and Contexts, 20-22 October 2010 University of the Balearic Islands in Palma de Mallorca, Spain Proposals are to be submitted by 15 May 2010. Conference website www.selicup2010.org Mauritius: Crossroads of Transoceanic Flows/  Ile Maurice : Carrefour des Océans, 25 October 2010 The Institute of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Leeds Humanities, Leeds, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 15 July 2010 | Contact: conmauritiusleeds@gmail.com A Decade of Women's Writing in France: Trends and Horizons 2000-2010, 10th anniversary conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing in French Seminar, 14-16 October 2010 Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK For provisional programme, registration form and accommodation and location details, see http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=376 November UNESCO: Violence Against Women, November 2010 Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Deadline for Abstracts: 15 July 2010 | Contact: gender.shs@unesco.org Site: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/ [Un]disciplined Encounters: Science as Terrain of Postcolonial Interaction Between Africa and Europe — Past and Future, 5-6 November. 2010 Brussels, Belgium Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2010 | Contact: secretariat@science2010-af-eu.com An Independent England and its Literature, 6 November 2010 Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK Deadline fro Abstracts 1 April 2010 | Contact: Michael Gardiner and Claire Westall with the subject line – ‘An Independent England’ using C.L.Westall@warwick.ac.uk. The De-Politicization of 9/11, 6 November 2010 Newcastle University‏, Newcastle, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 7 June 2010 | Contact: 911conference@ncl.ac.uk Postgraduate Conference, Migrancy and the Text: Migrancy, Newness and the Problems of Tradition, 6 November 2010 Kingston University, Penrhyn Road Campus, London, KT1 2EE, UK Deadline for abstracts: 27 September 2010Conference Information: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=1403 | For enquiries, please contact Vedrana at v.velickovic@kingston.ac.uk or Heidi at H.James-Dunbar@kingston.ac.uk. Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies, 19-20 November 2010 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Deadline for Abstracts: 15 January 2010 / Contact: Sarah Brophy brophys@mcmaster.ca Between Utopia and Dystopia: The Afterlives of Empire, 19-20 November 2010 Institut Français, London, UK Annual Conference of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial StudiesDeadline for Abstracts: 30 June 2010-04-21 Contact: Conference Secretary, Georgina Collins (sfpsconference@googlemail.com) Re-Imagining Gender and Politics: Transnational Feminist Interventions, 27-28 November 2010 Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2010 | Contact: politik-geschlecht@gmx.net British Comparative Literature Association: Postgraduate One-Day Workshop: Comparative Spaces Beyond the West, 30 November 2010 University College London, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 25 June 2010 | Contact: Dorota Gołuch d.goluch.09@ucl.ac.uk and Asia Zgadzaj jaz1d09@soton.ac.uk December Mapping Africa from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century: Construction, Transmission and Circulation of Cartographic Knowledge about Africa, (Europe, Arab world and Africa), 2-3 December 2010 Bibliotheque nationale de France and University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France Deadline for Abstracts: 3 Mary 2010 | Contact : cartographierlafrique@gmail.com The Tenth International Symposium on Comparative Literature “Marginalised”, 7-9 December, 2010 Department of English Language and Literature, Cairo University, Egypt Deadline for abstracts: February 28, 2010 / Contact: cairosymposium@yahoo.com Interceptions: Theory’s Modernism and Modernism’s Theory, 11 December 2010 University of Glasgow, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 1 May 2010 Contact: interceptions@googlegroups.com 2011 January Taalifkat Tudunya Writers Workshop, 5-15 January 2011‏Gorée, SenegalContact Adam Wiedewitsch at adam@piroguecollective.orgSite: http://piroguecollective.org February The Challenges of Teaching Arabic in the 21st Century, 9-11 February 2011 Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar‏ Deadline for Abstracts: 15 September 2010 Site: http://qatar.cmu.edu/1041/the-challenges-of-teaching-arabic-in-the-21st-century March Modernism: Katherine Mansfield and her Contemporaries, 25-26 March 2011 Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK Deadline for abstracts: 20 September 2010 | Site: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/cambridge-2011/   EACLALS Postgraduate Conference, 26 - 27 March 2011 Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Deadline for Abstracts: 1 November 2010For further information about the conference, please see the website at www.eaclals.ulg.ac.be/pg-conference<http://www.eaclals.ulg.ac.be/pg-conference. April 37th Annual African Literature Association Conference, 13-17 April 2011 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA Deadline for Abstracts: 1 December 2010 | Contact: Ghirmai Negash ala2011AthensOH@gmail.com EACLALS Conference 2011: 'Under Construction: Gateways and Walls', 26-30 April 2011‏ Istanbul, Turkey Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2010 |Contact: EACLALS2011@googlemail.com | Check the EACLALS website at http://www.eaclals.org for subscription rates and for further information.

research centres and projects

African Studies Association http://www.africanstudies.org/   African Studies Association of the UK http://www.asauk.net/     British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) http://www.canadian-studies.net   British Comparative Literature Association http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/bcla/index.htm   Britain Zimbabwe Society http://www.britain-zimbabwe.org.uk/   Center for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema http://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Home.html   Centre for African Studies, Cambridge http://www.african.cam.ac.uk/   Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, School of English, University of Kent http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/staff-research/centres/poco/postcolonialindex.html   Centre for Contemporary Fiction and Narrative, University of Northampton http://twe02.build.sitebuilderservice.com/trellix/sitebuilder/f_edit_page.html   Centre for Global and Transnational Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London http://cgtp.rhul.ac.uk/   Centre for Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/postcolonial-studies/   Contemporary Women's Writing Network http://www.cwwn.org.uk/   Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University, Denmark http://www.ruc.dk/cuid_en/   European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) http://www.eaclals.org/   Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/events.htm   Framing Muslims http://framingmuslims.org   HEBN Publishers http://hebnpublishers.com   Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC), Royal Holloway, University of London http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/harc/main.html   Indian Ocean: Narratives in Literature and Law, University of Southampton http://www.soton.ac.uk/indianocean/   Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Leeds http://www.leeds.ac.uk/icps/    International Journal of Francophone Studies http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=13682679    Katherine Mansfield Society http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/   Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870-1950 http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/south-asians-making-britain/index.html   Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings http://www.movingworlds.net   Northern Association for Postcolonial Studies (NAPS) http://www.naps-online.org/   New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) http://www.nzsa.co.uk/   Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia‏ http://www.postcolonialtranslation.net/    Postgraduate English, A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English (UK) http://www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate.english/journal1.htm   Royal Holloway Postcolonial Research Group (RHPRG) http://www.cameronius.com/helen/RHPRG/   School of Oriental and African Studies: Language Centre http://www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre/   Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies http://www.sfps.ac.uk/   Urban Salon http://www.theurbansalon.org   Wasafiri: Magazine of International Contemporary Writing http://www.wasafiri.org/

reading groups

Birkbeck, Postcolonial Studies Reading Group http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/research/research_seminar/psrg   King’s College, Reading Group on Postcolonial Medievalism http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/french/news/readinggroup   Leeds University, ICPS Postgraduate Reading Group http://www.leeds.ac.uk/icps/news.htm   Newcastle University, Postcolonial Research Group http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/postcolonial/index.htm   Open University, Post-Colonial Literatures Research Group http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/Literature/post-colonial/seminars.htm   Stirling University, Postcolonial Studies Reading & Film Group http://brian-rock.blogspot.com/2008/02/postcolonial-studies-reading-film-group.html